I found a teenage boy who was in a serious accident several years ago thanks to the driver being on drugs. He is now doing well after years of rehab and brain surgeries, and has just revealed that he visited Heaven right after the accident. Very descriptive of what he saw...says he was told it wasn't his time yet and that he needed to go back to earth to inspire people. Wants to write a book about it. Any thoughts?
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It's called a "near death experience," which has skeptics debating whether or not they actually "occur." There's a lot of philosophical debate on it, and there are lots of books already on the subject.*
As far as this one individual's NDE goes, well, there's nothing unique about it. He was in an accident, had an NDE, had injuries, and has recovered.
This pretty much follows the pattern of every other NDE that's been recorded. So, I personally can't see an entire book about it. At most, his story might be a chapter in yet another book about NDEs.
*ETA: This link goes to a list of commercially-published books on the subject. Not included here are the hundreds, perhaps thousands of self-published and vanity-published books about NDEs and accident recovery topics that were written by well-meaning authors who just wanted to share their stories. Problem is that those titles are lost in a vast wasteland of similar books that readers who might be interested have no way of finding because they weren't commercially published.
As far as this one individual's NDE goes, well, there's nothing unique about it. He was in an accident, had an NDE, had injuries, and has recovered.
This pretty much follows the pattern of every other NDE that's been recorded. So, I personally can't see an entire book about it. At most, his story might be a chapter in yet another book about NDEs.
*ETA: This link goes to a list of commercially-published books on the subject. Not included here are the hundreds, perhaps thousands of self-published and vanity-published books about NDEs and accident recovery topics that were written by well-meaning authors who just wanted to share their stories. Problem is that those titles are lost in a vast wasteland of similar books that readers who might be interested have no way of finding because they weren't commercially published.
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This reminds me of Heaven is for Real, which is a bestseller, but has a very explicit religious point of view.